Call for papers Graduate Seminar ‘Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation’ – deadline abstracts 30 March 2026

Posthumus fellows Dr Ramona Négron and Dr Karwan Fatah-Black welcome graduate students working on topics related to early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate in a one-day graduate seminar on 22 October 2026 at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands.

The graduate workshop offers the opportunity for PhD candidates at different stages of their projects to present a chapter, an article draft, or research paper in a small and specialized setting. Participants can expect to receive constructive feedback from peers and invited senior scholars in the field. The workshop aims to foster open discussion across imperial and linguistic contexts and methodological approaches and welcomes contributions at different stages of completion.

This seminar is organized in tandem with the workshop Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions: Slave revolts, their non-slave participants and proto-citizenship, to be held at the KITLV the next day, 23 October 2026.

Graduate students wanting to participate should send their 1-page abstract ultimately 30 March 2026 by e-mail to Ramona Négron.